IDFA Hits in Carré
From Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, IDFA will showcase eight specially selected, notable festival films at the Royal Theater Carré that you definitely shouldn't miss. After each screening, there will be an in-depth discussion with filmmakers and experts.
IDFA Hits is made possible by the VriendenLoterij.
About a Hero + Talk
Friday, November 15 (15:15 - 17:15)
Werner Herzog once said that a computer can’t make a good film. Piotr Winiewicz takes on the challenge with his AI-generated film based on Herzog’s oeuvre. The result is both a product of and a reflection on AI. With a discussion afterwards.
Home Game + Talk hosted by Het Parool
Friday, November 15 (18:30 - 20:20)
A film self-portrait by Lidija Zelović, who has struggled with her designation as a refugee ever since she arrived in Amsterdam from Sarajevo at the age of 23. She reflects on the Netherlands and its acceptance of foreigners. With a discussion afterwards.
One to One: John & Yoko
Friday, November 15 (21:30 - 23:30)
Creative visual collage of historical television and audio material, guiding you through an era when John Lennon and Yoko Ono took a unique approach to making the world a better place. Vibrant, musical, and surprisingly topical.
The Propagandist
Saturday, November 16 (20:00 -22:00)
Due to his position as head of the Nazi film guild in the occupied Netherlands, filmmaker Jan Teunissen later became known as “the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl.” This revealing portrait also questions the boundaries between documentary and propaganda.
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found
Sunday, November 17 (10:30 - 12:50)
Ernest Cole (1940-1990) was one of the first photographers to capture what apartheid meant to Black South Africans like himself. During his exile in the US, he photographed scenes of untold freedom next to scenes of overt racism. Introduction by curator Katy Hundertmark of Foam.
The Shadow Scholars
Sunday, November 17 (14:00 - 16:00)
Tens of thousands of young, well-educated Kenyans are hired online by undergraduates and doctoral students at Western universities to write their essays and theses. Oxford professor Patricia Kingori embarks on a search for these “shadow scholars.”
Eno + Talk (VPRO Extra)
Sunday, November 17 (17:30 - 19:30)
Brian Eno, former keyboard player with Roxy Music and producer of Bowie and U2, composes with computers. In keeping with his spirit, the order of interviews and archive footage is determined by an algorithm with every screening of Eno. VPRO Extra with a Talk by Abel Enklaar of VPRO Medialab and the filmmakers of Eno.
No Other Land + Talk
Sunday, November 17 (20:45 - 23:00)
An award-winning documentary about the ceaseless Israeli attacks on a network of Palestinian villages in the West Bank, heroically documented by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. With discussion afterwards.
